bio
Alessio de Girolamo (b. 1980) is a sound and visual artist whose research explores the relationships among environmental sound, listening, technology, and compositional processes. His practice develops through sound installations, live performances, computational systems, and mixed-media works.
Environmental sound plays a central role in his work, entering the artistic process as an active agent that can influence the emergence of musical and perceptual structures. Through custom software, feedback systems, field recording, and real-time sound processing, de Girolamo creates situations in which sound evolves through the interaction between designed systems, environmental contingencies, and listening.
His current research develops the concept of Environmental Sonic Agency, investigating forms of composition in which the acoustic environment participates in shaping rhythm, timbre, and musical form. He is pursuing this research in his PhD in Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Arts at the “Umberto Giordano” Conservatory of Foggia.
EDUCATION & RESEARCH
2025–2028
PhD in Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Arts, Conservatorio di Musica “Umberto Giordano”, Foggia, Italy
2005
Degree in DAMS (Disciplines of Arts, Music and Performing Arts), University of Genoa, Italy
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & PROJECTS
2026
EFM #1, Electroacoustic Sounds — Ritmi e Circuiti, Conservatorio di Musica “Umberto Giordano”, Foggia, Italy — live electroacoustic performance, world premiere
Ursonate 4 — Ascolti liberi in quattro movimenti, Potlatch, Milan, Italy — live sound performance (curated by Matteo Bertini)
2025
1x1 — Real Time, Spazio C.O.S.M.O., Milan, Italy (curated by Luca Pancrazzi and Elena El Asmar)
Travelogue — Paesaggi con rovine, Festival del Paesaggio, Anacapri, Italy (curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio)
2024
Real Time, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
TRE, Linea Project, Lecce, Italy (curated by Alice Caracciolo and Marco Vitale)
2023
La parsimonia dell’acqua, various venues in Puglia, Italy (curated by Cyntia Concari and Roberto Marcatti)
2022
The Fool, Riss(e), Varese, Italy (curated by Ermanno Cristini)
Arcanum, Exibart Digital Gallery (curated by Daniele Perra)
2021
Atlantis, FENDI / SCIC flagship store, Milan, Italy (curated by Irene Biolchini)
2020
Atlantis, NAM — Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, Italy — live sound performance
L-System, NAM — Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, Italy — live sound performance
Era Vulgaris, Spazio Gamma, Milan, Italy (with Hyun Cho and Niccolò Moronato; curated by Stefano Non)
2019
Wonder Waters, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta — participatory environmental installation
L-System #3, Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China — sound installation in collaboration with Loris Cecchini (curated by Manuela Lietti)
2018
Real Time, La vita materiale, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (curated by Marina Dacci)
L-System #2, TAI — Tuscan Art Industry, Prato, Italy — environmental sound installation
L-System #1, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy — sound installation in collaboration with Loris Cecchini
2017
Who’s Afraid of the Wolf?, SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy (curated by Pietro Gaglianò)
4 Minuti #2, Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo, Italy — performance and video installation
2016
Nn, ovvero non conosco nome, InnerRoom, Siena, Italy (curated by Federico Fusj)
Loudness War, Noiseinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo, Italy — live sound performance
Slicing Mozart, Etna Rêverie, Primaterra Estate, Sicily, Italy — live sound performance (curated by Daniele Perra)
Skyline Rapsody, FPAC — Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy — sound work in collaboration with Luca Pancrazzi
Sound No Sound, Palazzo Bracci, Fano, Italy — two-person exhibition
2015
HI | ERE, Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo, Italy — live sound performance
2014
Corner, Biennale del Lago Maggiore, Cannero Riviera, Italy (curated by Ludovica Lumer)
Portraits, Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo, Italy — live sound performance
2012
4’, Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo, Italy — performance and video installation